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Secrets of the Night (Topaz/Penguin Putnam $ 8.99)
Rosamunde Overton is a young Yorkshire wife with an 18th Century dilemma. Her husband, the much older Sir Digby Overton, is impotent and ailing-rich food and a fondness for brandy having taken their toll. Unless he and Rosamunde produce an heir, their family home and land will pass to Sir Digby's odious nephew. In the latest historical romance from Jo Beverley, Secrets of the Night (Topaz/Penguin Putnam $ 8.99), Rosamunde must find a man to "give her a tupping"; - and impregnate her.
But Rosamunde is out of her league when the virile stranger she finds - and falls in love with - turns out to be none other than Lord Brand Malloren, brother of the Marquess of Rothgar. Rosamunde becomes a pre-suffragette feminist when she discovers the joy of sex. When she is told she shouldn't be out at night because "all men are easily tempted,"; she retorts "Then perhaps men shouldn't be allowed out of the house at night."; Beverley lives in Victoria. 0-451-40847-0
[BCBW AUTUMN 1999]
But Rosamunde is out of her league when the virile stranger she finds - and falls in love with - turns out to be none other than Lord Brand Malloren, brother of the Marquess of Rothgar. Rosamunde becomes a pre-suffragette feminist when she discovers the joy of sex. When she is told she shouldn't be out at night because "all men are easily tempted,"; she retorts "Then perhaps men shouldn't be allowed out of the house at night."; Beverley lives in Victoria. 0-451-40847-0
[BCBW AUTUMN 1999]
Submitted on July 22, 2003 in By David.
